Seagate Works toward Goal of a 20 Terabyte Drive by 2020

DPI said:
Further than NAND will scale.
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That might be true, but I think putting more research into NAND or NAND alternatives, and even sacrificing compactness for more storage is still a better way to go. It's been about a year since I looked at full solid state SAN solutions, but when I was comparing them at that time (I think I was looking at Pure Storage) while it was more expensive than the hybrid/tiered EMC solution we ended up getting, it was still within the right ballpark. That can only have improved since then. For home use? I'd rather have a few SSDs in a system than one or two large platters. I tend to spread my storage needs out over multiple computers though, so my use-case is a bit odd I suppose. I don't have any spinning storage at home now though, and quite happy about it. (Oh, except the drives in my security NVR. That's still got a little RAID array in it with platters.
 
IDT did a study/analysis of data trends (Data Age 2025) and is estimating by the year 2025, worldwide data creation will grow to an eye-popping 163 zetabytes. This is 10 times the amount of data being produced in 2017. Managing the exponential and explosive growth of storage is likely going to require a combination of effort and innovation including both spinning and flash storage tech, somehow it doesn't feel like they're going to get that all on SSD, nor would it be cost-effective.
 
Seagate_Surfer said:
IDT did a study/analysis of data trends (Data Age 2025) and is estimating by the year 2025, worldwide data creation will grow to an eye-popping 163 zetabytes. This is 10 times the amount of data being produced in 2017. Managing the exponential and explosive growth of storage is likely going to require a combination of effort and innovation including both spinning and flash storage tech, somehow it doesn't feel like they're going to get that all on SSD, nor would it be cost-effective.
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I've got a startup for wax-cylinder data storage. Maybe I can help. :D

That's a lot of data. We're going to need some AI's just to keep it all organized.
 
Seagate_Surfer said:
IDT did a study/analysis of data trends (Data Age 2025) and is estimating by the year 2025, worldwide data creation will grow to an eye-popping 163 zetabytes. This is 10 times the amount of data being produced in 2017. Managing the exponential and explosive growth of storage is likely going to require a combination of effort and innovation including both spinning and flash storage tech, somehow it doesn't feel like they're going to get that all on SSD, nor would it be cost-effective.
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Laser Dopler Interferometry storage might be the future. Access will be slow as crap, but you put enough of them in parallel, you could have some real power. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1143/JJAP.38.1730/pdf
 
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